Showing posts with label benji and mandy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label benji and mandy. Show all posts

last full day in illinois. part 4: baby joah benjamin.

friday, july 23, 2010. tonight we got a little treat. benji and mandy brought over ava and her new little brother, joah!!! he is so perfect and precious. i could eat him up.
benji, the proud papa.
looky looing:)
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levi couldn't wait to see the baby!
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g'ma getting ready to hold her grandbaby. 
seriously, look at levi's huge smile!!!
g'ma mic and g. g'ma erm with the new be.
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great g'ma's turn.
joah is g'ma's 9th great grandchild!!! so incredible.
another ginormous levi smile. he so loves babies.
touching joah's chin.
checking out how tiny joah's piggys are.
touching his head.
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audrey holding joah.
trying to find joah's feet to show abey.
levi loving on ava:)
big sister ava, papa benji, mama mandy, looking fabulous just three days post c-section, holding her little man.
aunt denice holding the babe.
lil pumpkin.
grama's in love!
so presh.
joshua got to hold the little peanut.

baby joah benjamin henrichs is here.

wednesday, july 21, 2010. this morning, by scheduled c-section, joah benjamin henrichs was born. he weighed in at 8 lbs, 7 oz and was 21 inches long. proud pops, benji, is joshua's cousin. his wife mandy is doing great after the surgery and looks fantastic in all her photos. what a little blessing he is. we are so thrilled to be here and able to experience all the anticipation and excitement of his arrival.
aunt mic and uncle ralph getting the call from benji. mic put it on speaker so we could all hear. the first word was "boy". benji and mandy chose not to find out the sex ahead of time!
they also hadn't decided on a name. we found that out later. here micky is talking to g'ma erm and uncle rex at the same time.
aunt mic and uncle ralph drove to champagne to go see their 5th grandbaby. the 1st boy to carry on the henrichs name.
then we got to look at all the pictures when they got back. in this one mic is holding the little guy.
this evening, uncle rex, aunt denise, and g'ma erm all came over to look at the pictures.

lunch at g'ma erm's with tons of family, golf cart/wagoning, and metal art.

tuesday, july 20, 2010. lizzie and the kiddos came down again today. yay! they wanted to see carl and aud before they left for wisconson. g'ma invited them to lunch, which led to us being invited as well. we pretty much made a day of it! levi and abraham were already at g'ma's because they stayed the night. carl and aud took them to raven's cattle farm to check out cows this morning.
the clouds just went on forever in straight lines.
abraham and elle getting into the chips. elle had her arm sweetly around abe.
lizzie and the munchkins.
part of the crew. lizzie, g'ma erm, micky, elle, and audrey.
uncle rexy came by too!
abraham playing with the barbies grandma scored at a yard sale in arizona.
beep beep. jack playing with trucks.
levi asked that we bring a wagon so we could pull it from behind g'ma's golf cart. mic and ralph gave g'ma the cart from the farm. she wanted one to toot around town like uncle randy does. we ended up just borrowing a wagon from the neighbors across the the street. thanks stoller fam!
abraham had to hold onto it until they could figure out a way to attach it. all the bungees were at the lake.
joshua asked mic and i for our opinion on what to make uncle rex. this led to lots of other cool ideas to be explored.
uncle ralphy and the kiddos going for rides.
joshua and one possibility. a heart petaled flower.
or a sun-like shape.
levi totally driving. ralph would keep his foot behind the pedal so levi couldn't go too fast.
abraham and elle where in the golf club's caddy. g'pa block tried to get jack to ride in the wagon.
it worked for a while.
the creativity kept flowing. i'm going to blog about other ideas in a separate post. keep a look out for it.
abraham and elle with the fields behind them. i love it.
a spider in it's web.
this is abey's hhmmm? face. he gets so dramatic with his features. it cracks us up. he can't find the last block for the puzzle next to him.
lizzie describing where her and brian's land is in relation to the rest of the blunier's clan. they have 7 acres that they will build on sometime in the next year or two.
we all took a field trip see how beth and noah dodd's house is coming along. they totally gutted this super old brick home. they redid the electrical, and plumbing, etc. they just finished priming the whole interior. joshua, aunt mic, joey, and i all got to see it a coulpe weeks ago, so i took a quick peek inside and then headed to the park across the street to play with the kiddos.
they have a great park in the middle of the town. aunt mic shop is across the street.
cute pic of the sisters!
aunt denise was at g'ma's house when we got back from the field trip.
g'ma and her girls.
chasing.
crazy facin'.
joshua took me on another field trip. he saw this when they were driving back from the field trip. i went another route with aunt mic and the kiddos in the golf cart.
this is similar to a whirly gig my parents found at their place in yarnell.
an old merry-go-round in someones yard.
uncle rex took the boys on a ride. they ran out of juice on this tiny hill. i had to push them up.
seriously? abe is sitting in the little basket. HAHAHA!
mama's and kiddos.
after we left g'ma's we headed out to benji and mandy's. lizzie, rex, and denise wanted to see all the new construction they just completed...and to wish them good luck the next morning with the baby being born!
i want to make one of these bird houses.
lost in go go diego land.
benji and mandy's pumpkins.
lookin good.